Mexico has added pork to the list of U.S. products against which it is retaliating for the failure of the United States to let Mexican trucks haul goods into the U.S. The National Pork Producers Council expressed their disappointment. NPPC President Sam Carney, a producer from Adair, Iowa says Mexico's retaliation against U.S. pork will have negative economic consequences for America's pork producers.
"We are extremely disappointed that our top volume export market has taken this action, but we're more disappointed that the United States is not living up to its trade obligations," Carney said. "That failure not only has hurt dozens of U.S. industries economically, but it could prompt other countries to think twice about entering into trade deals with the United States."
Earlier, a NAFTA dispute-settlement panel ruled against the United States giving Mexico the right to retaliate against U.S. products, which it did in March 2009, placing higher tariffs on more than $2.4 billion of U.S. goods. NPPC has been urging the Obama administration to work with Congress to quickly resolve the trucking issue with Mexico, which last year bought $762 million of U.S. pork.
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